A whole chicken is one of the most indulgent meals you can make for a reasonable price. Taking it outside to the grill adds another layer of flavor and, not for nothing, keeps your house from smelling like a chicken restaurant.

There’s also no disputing that cooking a whole chicken on the grill takes your meal into project territory. Enter spatchcocking, a term for removing the spine of and then butterflying your bird to help it cook quicker and easier over the grill grates.

Using this method, your cooking time should be approximately 45 minutes to an hour, depending on the size of your bird. I’ve been known to grill my chicken for 30 minutes or so and finish it in a hot oven until it reaches 165 in the thickest part of the thigh.

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Steal John Williams' fried chicken recipe.

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Steal John Williams’ fried chicken recipe.

Too many greasy, small chicken wings (and stomach upsets) have steered myself and my family away from popular fried chicken outlets.

My go-to ‘fried’ chicken meal is tasty and easier on the wallet, and doesn’t require a deep fryer. It feeds four people.

Ingredients:

  • 1.2kg of chicken pieces
  • 1 packet of diamond coat and cook
  • 1 plastic bag
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup of milk
  • Potatoes and kmara for veggies (or pre-frozen chips)

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Who feels like chicken tonight?

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Who feels like chicken tonight?

Methods:

  1. Create the egg wash by whisking the egg and milk together in a medium-sized bowl, then
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Causa Limeña

Active time:1 hour, 25 mins

Total time:1 hour, 35 mins

Serving:6 to 10 (makes one 9×9-inch layered salad)

Active time:1 hour, 25 mins

Total time:1 hour, 35 mins

Serving:6 to 10 (makes one 9×9-inch layered salad)

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There’s no analogue for cause in American cooking. Part cold casserole, part picnic-greatest-hits mash-up, the Peruvian dish is assembled like a trifle and resembles a 1970s congealed salad. To make causa Limeña, the dish’s classic presentation, home cooks layer chile-and-lime-spiked potato puree, chicken or tuna salad, avocado, tomato, and more potato in a baking dish. The whole thing is chilled, unmolded and garnished with black olives and boiled eggs.

“Rich, middle-class and poor families make it. We all eat causa,” says Diego Oka, chef of La Mar in Miami and a native of Lima.

Causa morphs when it leaves Peru. The

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Korean BBQMemorial Day signifies the start of summer time. Platters of thinly sliced fatty brisket and marinated quick rib arrive, and our waiter grills them for us, bending over at a 45-diploma angle with one arm neatly tucked behind his again. We’ve been at the restaurant for 5 minutes and it’s the tenth time he’s visited our desk to perform a job. Eating at a Korean restaurant usually means an infinite array of facet dishes, or banchan.

Place leftover pork within the refrigerator immediately, the place you possibly can preserve it for three to 4 days. Any meat that has been left at room temperature for more than two hours or outdoors in temperature in excess of ninety degrees Fahrenheit for more than one hour should be thrown away, the USDA studies. Sure of us, it is that point of 12 months again, the annual Bluegrass and BBQ festival in good … Read more

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